December, 2006

Warning: this is a rant. I'm not expecting people to take it seriously. All helpful suggestions and critiques will be regarded through the lens of someone who's ranting. The Washington DOT keeps a huge amount of data about traffic that travels the state...

The mail from one of my team's recruiters today said that Mr. John Montgomery would be doing the "as appropriate" interview -- the final interview of the day. Mr. John Montgomery. I realize I've been here eight+ years and that I'm not really young any...

A long time ago, I got to be the editor of Jon Udell's BYTE column, which gave me the opportunity to work with one the smartest guys I've met. Of course, my first rewrite of his first column didn't go over too well (our editor neglected to tell me to...

My boss sent this my way a couple of days ago. I put off looking at it since it seemed like it would be work-related and we all know that in the weeks preceding and following Christmas It Is Forbidden to Do Work . In any event I watched it today and finally...

This morning, building 41 lost power. Steven Wilssens (one of the PMs on my team) and I were just settling into some deep conversation when everything went black and the fire alarm started whooping and periodically saying, "Lobby, lobby, lobby" in an...

One of the meetings that our division inflicts regularly schedules is called "running the business" (formerly they were called "rhythm of the business" but I think someone noticed that we don't got rhythm). Our team had its RTB meeting today. It went...

Peter O'Kelly boldly predicts there will be fewer bold predictions from analysts in the future. This reminded me of a BYTE article I was working on a decade ago. It was an update on Windows NT, I think. In any event, I re-read the original BYTE article...